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Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut offBefore it has a chance to go two blocks,At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berths GarageIs on the corner facing west, and there,Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps Berth out.Flick stands tall among the idiot pumpsFive on a side, the old bubble-head style,Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.Ones nostrils are two Ss, and his eyesAn E and O. And one is squat, withoutA head at allmore of a football type.Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards.He was good: in fact, the best. In 46He bucketed three hundred ninety points,A county record still. The ball loved Flick.I saw him rack up thirty-eight or fortyIn one home game. His hands were like wild birds.He never learned a trade, he just sells gas,Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while,As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube,But most of us remember anyway.His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench.It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though.Off work, he hangs around Maes Luncheonette.Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball,Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates.Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nodsBeyond her face toward bright applauding tiersOf Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.Both the poem and the picture focus on basketball players. What is the primary contrast between the poem and the picture?a.The player in the poem is more talented than the one in the picture.c.The player in the picture plays in a gym.b.The poem is about a former basketball player and the picture is during a game.d.None of the above.